Shawn Biddle

@tectonic There are a few attempts over the years but I've been away from the project for a while so I'm not sure if there's anything recent. The slack would have a better answer

@sabiddle Do you know if anyone is using raviermud for a live game?

This episode we continue our coverage of STS-51L by examining what actually happened on the flight, as well as the proximate cause of the accident. This is a difficult episode, but STS-51L is part of our history and it is important that we understand and remember it. #STS51L 1/3

The Sprite ad before I watched Lighthouse tonight was Christmas themed. Come on it's not even Halloween yet, stop this encroachment

A few words on why Gaetz stunt to storm the SCIF to disrupt Laura Cooper's deposition is a VERY serious national security problem. Note, I worked in that SCIF for HPSCI and handled cybersecurity issues while there.

This week we begin our coverage of the 25th flight of the Space Shuttle: STS-51L. The mission would end in tragedy with the loss of crew and vehicle 73 seconds after liftoff. Before learning about what went wrong, we learn about the remarkable mission that was planned #STS51L 1/4

@gnuconsulting Did they have another wave of layoffs?

Episode 17 is out! Don't miss this one, we talked with Richard Bartle, one of the creators of MUD1

#AdventOfCode is back for 2019 with programming puzzles released every day from December 1st through Christmas! We're a community of over 250,000 people improving programming skills, learning new languages, and rescuing Santa (again). See you soon! adventofcode.com 🌟

"When I try to drown my thoughts in gin I find my worst ideas know how to swim" Can't get this line out of my head. The whole album is absolutely worth a listen though terribly sad youtube.com/watch?v=_LhVwW…

I have a Patreon! I hadn't planned on announcing it until the episode on Thursday but the approval process was a lot faster than I expected so I might as well let the world know now. Thanks so much to everyone who made this possible! patreon.com/thespaceaboveus

Trump: “By hook or by crook, I will oppress the working poor to the best of my ability.” American evangelicals: “That’s our man!”

Painstakingly is pains-takingly, not pain-stakingly. As in, to take pains to... not whatever the hell pain-stakingly is. This has been a personal epiphone.

The @mountain_goats subreddit is putting lyrics over relevant Seinfeld scenes. It makes me happy i.redd.it/0md2k6ql2ja31.…

"Also, we're silently throwing away every bit 1.x we wrote for Youtube because even though we said it would fall back to polyfills we don't trust those so fuck anyone that has to support legacy 1.x projects too."

Google: "Use @Polymer, it's v1, it's the platform!" *3 mos later* v2 use that! Even Youtube uses it (v1 though) *3 months later* v3 is out! Oh, btw NONE of your v1 code is compatible. *3 months later* "fuck Polymer, it's all about lit-html, use that! trust us!"

Colbert playing D&D is the best thing I've seen this week youtube.com/watch?v=3658C2…

@nickdirienzo I wouldn't mind a lack of practical if they were still learning good CS theory. That's a solid foundation, but it seems to be trying to pepper in "practical" classes in a "You need to know these keywords" fashion at the detriment of both the practical and theoretical.

@sabiddle 😞A lot of the classes I took failed to have any practical outcomes—2 classes come to mind that gave me practical knowledge. The system is pretty broken for CS. Practical projects are important and classes don’t really have them.

Just interviewed an intern who is a junior CS major and had a quite good GPA which means they were doing well in their classes but they just knew absolutely nothing through no fault of their own. Best I can tell the professors just gave students code ...

... Absolutely infuriating lack of actual teaching of underlying concepts on the school's part, setting these kids up for nothing but failure.

... then told them to shove it in a Java main class, and passed the ones that ran. Example: they had a "security" class that taught them how to use wireshark, but they didn't know how even the basics of how HTTP worked ...